Purpose : Used with other docs and files only.
- $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.24 2007/12/07 16:45:15 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.27 2008/01/17 01:49:51 hal9 Exp $
- Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
========================================================================
Sample Configuration File for Privoxy v&p-version;
</title>
<para>
- $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.24 2007/12/07 16:45:15 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.27 2008/01/17 01:49:51 hal9 Exp $
</para>
<para>
-Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
+Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
</para>
<para>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Logging is disabled unless <literal>--no-daemon</literal> mode is used.
+ No logfile is written.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
if third parties can get access to it. As most users will never look
at it, <application>Privoxy</application> 3.0.7 and later only log fatal
errors by default.
- </para>
- <para>
+ </para>
+ <para>
For most troubleshooting purposes, you will have to change that,
please refer to the debugging section for details.
</para>
<term>Specifies:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Key values that determine what information gets logged to the
- <link linkend="logfile"><emphasis>logfile</emphasis></link>.
+ Key values that determine what information gets logged.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Nothing gets logged.
+ Default value is used (see above).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</para>
<para>
<programlisting>
- debug 1 # show each GET/POST/CONNECT request
+ debug 1 # log each request destination (and the crunch reason if &my-app; intercepted the request)
debug 2 # show each connection status
debug 4 # show I/O status
debug 8 # show header parsing
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#debug 1 # show each GET/POST/CONNECT request</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#debug 1 # log each request destination (and the crunch reason if &my-app; intercepted the request)</literallayout>]]>
<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings</literallayout>]]>
<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#debug 8192 # Non-fatal errors</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
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<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="socks"><title>
-forward-socks4 and forward-socks4a</title>
+forward-socks4, forward-socks4a and forward-socks5</title>
<anchor id="forward-socks4">
<anchor id="forward-socks4a">
<replaceable class="parameter">http_parent</replaceable>[:<replaceable class="parameter">port</replaceable>]
</para>
<para>
- where <replaceable class="parameter">target_pattern</replaceable> is a <link linkend="af-patterns">URL pattern</link>
- that specifies to which requests (i.e. URLs) this forward rule shall apply. Use <literal>/</literal> to
- denote <quote>all URLs</quote>.
- <replaceable class="parameter">http_parent</replaceable> and <replaceable class="parameter">socks_proxy</replaceable>
- are IP addresses in dotted decimal notation or valid DNS names (<replaceable class="parameter">http_parent</replaceable>
+ where <replaceable class="parameter">target_pattern</replaceable> is a
+ <link linkend="af-patterns">URL pattern</link> that specifies to which
+ requests (i.e. URLs) this forward rule shall apply. Use <literal>/</literal> to
+ denote <quote>all URLs</quote>. <replaceable class="parameter">http_parent</replaceable>
+ and <replaceable class="parameter">socks_proxy</replaceable>
+ are IP addresses in dotted decimal notation or valid DNS names
+ (<replaceable class="parameter">http_parent</replaceable>
may be <quote>.</quote> to denote <quote>no HTTP forwarding</quote>), and the optional
- <replaceable class="parameter">port</replaceable> parameters are TCP ports, i.e. integer values from 1 to 64535
+ <replaceable class="parameter">port</replaceable> parameters are TCP ports,
+ i.e. integer values from 1 to 65535
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
is that in the SOCKS 4A protocol, the DNS resolution of the target hostname happens on the SOCKS
server, while in SOCKS 4 it happens locally.
</para>
+ <para>
+ With <literal>forward-socks5</literal> the DNS resolution will happen on the remote server as well.
+ </para>
<para>
If <replaceable class="parameter">http_parent</replaceable> is <quote>.</quote>, then requests are not
forwarded to another HTTP proxy but are made (HTTP-wise) directly to the web servers, albeit through